CNN's John Sutter talks about the role of human behavior in climate change. He says humans are very bad at visualizing exponential growth, which is what we need to address. The brain has two processing systems: an analytic system and a experiential one that can be triggered by external events such as earthquakes or tsunamis," he says. "We've tended to privilege one over the other."
We agree more than we think we do, but tech platforms distort our perceptions by amplifying the loudest, angriest and most dismissive voices online. In reality, they’re just a noisy faction. This Earth Day we ask Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, how he shifts public opinion on climate change. We’ll see how tech platforms could amplify voices of solidarity within our own communities. More importantly, we’ll see how they could empower 2 billion people to act in the face of global threats.